American Journal of Infection Control

Students engaged in active learning can make connections that will allow them to feel more confident in the material. Generation Z students expect education via technology. After receiving student feedback that the lectures for the New Nurse

Infection prevention and control observations of Instruments reprocessing work flows in a dental clinic by dental assistants, located in an urban tertiary cancer center, identified breaches in infection control protocols. Breaches included staff not

The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Antimicrobial Use (AU) Option allows antimicrobial stewardship programs to track, analyze, and report AU trends. The Tennessee Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (HAI/AR)

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are among the most common, most expensive healthcare-associated infections. In 2019, spinal fusions and laminectomies are associated with the most excess SSIs at an urban, 420-bed acute care hospital. Adherence to

Healthcare-associated bacterial pathogens frequently carry plasmids that contribute to antibiotic resistance and virulence. The horizontal transfer of plasmids in healthcare settings has been previously documented, but genomic and epidemiologic

Physical distancing was one of the most difficult COVID-19 mitigation strategies to implement for institutes of higher education (IHE), and many IHEs dropped this protocol in fall 2021 despite the unknown risk of doing so. The purpose of this study

Recent epidemics have spurred innovations in infection prevention and control (IPC) materials, equipment, devices, and technologies, highlighting opportunities to improve routine and emergency IPC practices. The ability to critically examine how IPC

Hospital-wide universal decolonization protocols have shown to reduce healthcare-associated infections, including those caused by Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Our facility decolonization protocol consists of a daily

An estimated 30,100 central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) occur in intensive care units and wards of U.S. acute care facilities each year. April 2020 through June 2021, the hospital-wide CLABSI Standardized Infection Ratio (SIR) was